Although expert forecasts indicate that
the dengue curve is tending to stabilize
, weekly records show a sustained increase in cases. And the climate, which gave a truce with the subpolar wave, will stop doing so in a few days, when the temperature inevitably rises again.
For now, the
drop in temperature
is beating the
availability of repellent
in the race to try to dampen the dengue outbreak, whose weekly data on national cases and deaths were expected to be updated by the Ministry of Health at the time of writing. .
Meanwhile, some new jurisdictional figures were released that show that dengue cases
are more than previously believed
. The most striking were those of Córdoba - one of the most complicated provinces -, where an unprecedented number of infections were added due to "misplaced cases" in medical records, not previously reported, with which the figure now reached more than
66 thousand notifications
.
A week before, the National Epidemiological Bulletin (BEN) had attributed 25 thousand cases to Córdoba. Of the 36 thousand new cases,
20 thousand - almost a third of the total -
were from previous weeks and
had not been reported as dengue cases
, which raises the question of whether the same situation may not be occurring in other provinces.
How much the shortage of repellent
influenced
the
acceleration of the epidemic
in the last month
is an improbable study that would surely leave some uncomfortable conclusions for those who should have guaranteed, from the State and the industry, this supply in time.
When does the repellent arrive from Poland?
The announcement that the units of Off! imported from Poland by the SC Johnson laboratory would arrive on Friday, in the end
it was not fulfilled
, although the arrival was imminent,
Customs sources confirmed to
Clarín .
The laboratory's original plan, as announced last Tuesday, was to receive the merchandise on Friday so that it would be available on shelves this Monday. However, in the last hours from Customs they told
Clarín
that the arrivals of Off! coming from Poland were now scheduled in three batches:
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
.
Clarín
consulted SC Johnson to find out the reason for this delay and did not receive a response. The Customs sources consulted detailed that “the cargo from Poland arrives on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.” In other words, it is not very clear when this will be translated into
availability in stores
.
“Until the repellent arrives, we are not sure of the exact quantities or days, it is just what is planned,” Customs sources warned. In principle, the arrival of
more than 120 thousand units
had been announced
.
Other imports are added
Despite this delay, there is also
good news
, since the same official spokespersons explained that due to the facilities that the Government temporarily gave for 30 days to import repellent -without the usual sanitary filters imposed by ANMAT-, "there is beginning to be and
other companies in the sector
that are importing repellents, such as the Siegfried Laboratory.”
They added that “the SC Johnson laboratory also continues to
import supplies
for the national production of Off!. "Today - this Saturday - a load of
container lids
(274,000 units) and also the
active ingredient DEET
(8 tons)
are released ."
At the same time they said that this Saturday “
a load of 21,600 units of Off! finished
, more precisely Off! family”, to market. Although they differentiated them from those from Poland, they could not specify where they came from or the firm that brought them.
The repellent will surely be necessary again this fall, since the effects of the subpolar wave will have a limit. By the end of next week it is already announced that
there will be maximum temperatures that will reach 26 degrees
.
With the accumulated water from this weekend's rain, the climate scenario would once again be conducive to the development of
Aedes aegypti
. That is why cleaning potential containers that are outdoors is key.
It is to be hoped that, by the time this life cycle of the mosquito is completed, depending on the speeding up of the importation of inputs for the manufacture of repellents and the finished product, there may begin to be greater
availability on shelves
by mid-2000. next week.
At the same time, the decision that the Government will make
regarding the
dengue vaccine
and its application in endemic areas of the country
is still pending .
Last Thursday, the National Immunization Commission (Conain) met again - which has already recommended the focused and segmented use of the drug - and the publication of the minutes of that meeting is expected.
Meanwhile, President Javier Milei said during his recent visit to Miami that vaccinating now does not make sense because "the mosquitoes go away in three months," which is the interval between the first and second doses of the vaccine, without repairing in the endemic places of the country
the virus continues to circulate all year round
, as happened during the last winter.
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